Example sentences of "a [noun] of [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a tie results , then after a break of up to a minute an extension of two or three minutes is fought . |
| 2 | This experience appeared to transform him and he threw himself into a great surge of composition , writing a Mass of Thanksgiving for unaccompanied choir filling 100 pages of manuscript , which he completed in 15 days , as well as other works , including a setting of Out of the Deep which is given its first performance by his choir at St Philip and St James , Cheltenham , at his funeral on today . |
| 3 | On the livestock side Stuart Ashworth warned that beef producers should brace themselves for a cut in the Beef Special Premium ‘ the base for Scotland is 244,000 male animals but there will be at least 300,000 head this year so we can anticipate a cut of somewhere in the region of 20-25 per cent in BSP payments . |
| 4 | ‘ It was not an uninteresting character , ’ said Nicholson , ‘ but it was a sort of aside from the film itself because the part was n't in the original script . |
| 5 | Double Benefits for you and your Spouse — £160 each per day for a period of up to a year — in the event of you both being hospitalised at the same time because of an accident , whilst both insured under the same policy . |
| 6 | We shall attempt to introduce into the timetable a period of up to a week in which to consider indicative offers and possibly commence negotiations with a preferred bidder . |
| 7 | ‘ Offences under the Act will attract a fine of up to the maximum £2,000 on conviction before a Magistrates Court and an unlimited fine on conviction before a Crown Court , ’ he said . |
| 8 | A certified cheque , cashier 's cheque or bank draft are quite acceptable although there could be a delay of up to a week before these funds can be used . |
| 9 | A certified cheque , cashier 's cheque or bank draft is quite acceptable although there could be a delay of up to a week before these funds can be used . |
| 10 | Even Richard Branson had to take his Virgin group private with Japanese backing to prosper , while Anita Roddick 's Body Shop , riding the environmental bandwagon , has taken a hammering of late in the stock market . |
| 11 | Boots ( retail division ) may consider giving employees moving from low-cost to high-cost areas a loan of up to a maximum of one and a half times the employee 's expected first year 's gross salary . |
| 12 | One woman fainted in the crush as police fought to control a crowd of up to a thousand . |
| 13 | There 's a lot of out to the hospital though in n it ? |
| 14 | It will cost you two stamps , and I 'm afraid , a wait of up to a month , as our volunteers deal with the huge response we get . |
| 15 | And then the stairs the stairs are facing you like that , so you 've only got about about a metre of in between the bottom of the stairs and your front door and you s just sort of go in through there an and you 're in the living room . |
| 16 | It is easy to see that would-be DIY funeral undertakers would be as welcome as a swarm of greenfly at the Chelsea flower show . |
| 17 | The press immediately took the heat off Margaret Thatcher , went for Norman Tebbit and went for Edwina Currie , and I think that was a part of the success in the build up to the last election , because at a time when the pressure really was on the Prime Minister , like it was a couple of when in the last few months of Margaret Thatcher 's leadership , that 's what happened . |
| 18 | They went up there like a couple of out of a gun , when I opened the door ! |
| 19 | And this method of actually going there living with them , learning their language and er so on s , really participating er would , finally there 's a way of actually in a sense , getting of the people , the nearer you can , anyway , of course , it 's relying on the people you stay with that you understand that something of the world comes over onto you so that imposing what 's essential in and So , here what Judith Oakley 's trying to do , is trying to understand how gypsies , themselves , differentiate , how do they define the boundaries between themselves and others . |
| 20 | Retain a copy of both on the client file , and put a further copy of both on the department 's CFS file . |
| 21 | The frequency of fluent restorations is thus an indication of whether mispronunciations occurred before or after the recognition point of a word , and thus an indication of where in a word the recognition point actually occurred . |
| 22 | An account of where in the development of individuals evolved changes productive of shifts in adult behaviour are expressing themselves . |